Plankton are an important food source for many large and small ocean creatures. They also play a vital role in absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen in the ocean. The two most prominent ...

Overall, researchers found that the plankton communities remained stable ... The researchers argue that food limitation, a result of the oligotrophic conditions under which this experiment took ...

But a warming world is throwing plankton into disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them. A year ago, NASA launched a satellite that provided the most detailed ...

Focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that ...